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Al-Bakri
Sign in to saveAlso known as Abū ʿUbayd al- Bakrī al-Andalusī, Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī, Abu ‘Obejd Abdallâh ibn ‘Abdal‘azîz Al-Bekri
Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an Arab Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Muslim West.
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Abdullah, known in Arabic as Abu Ubayd al-Bakri, was a male geographer, historian, and botanist born in Huelva in 1014. He worked in Córdoba and was a citizen of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the Taifa of Córdoba, and the Taifa of Seville. His fields of work included geography, history, philology, and Islamic theology. He practiced Sunni Islam and spoke Arabic.
His notable work is the *Book of Roads and Kingdoms*. He is described by the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition. Al-Bakri died in Córdoba in 1094. The Open Library lists an author named Ṭāriq al-Bakrı̄ with one work, *Juḥā wa ḥimāru al-wālı̄*, though this entry is distinct from the biographical data provided for Abdullah.
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- Juḥā wa ḥimāru al-wālı̄
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Key facts
- Religious biography.era
- Caliphate of Córdoba
- Religious biography.name
- Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī
- Religious biography.religion
- Islam
- Religious biography.birth_date
- 1040
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Huelva
- Religious biography.death_date
- 1094
- Religious biography.death_place
- Córdoba
- Religious biography.region
- Al-Andalus
- Religious biography.main_interests
- Islamic history, geography
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abdullah
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Taifa of Seville
- Place of birth
- Huelva
- Place of death
- Córdoba
- Occupation
- botanist
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Field of work
- medicine
- Work location
- Córdoba
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- date of birth
- 1014-01-01
- date of death
- 1094-01-01
- name in native language
- أبو عبيد البكري
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Al-Bakri
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Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an Arab Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Muslim West.
==Life== Al-Bakri was born in Huelva, the son of the sovereign of a short-lived principality established there by his family when the Caliphate of Cordoba fell in 1031. Al-Bakri belonged to the Arab tribe of Bakr. When his father was deposed by al-Mu'tadid (1042–1069) of the ruler of Taifa of Seville, he then moved to Córdoba, where he studied with the geographer al-Udri and the historian Ibn Hayyan. He spent his entire life in Al-Andalus, most of it in Seville and Almeria. While in Seville, he was there when El Cid arrived to collect tributes from Alfonso VI. He died in Córdoba without ever having travelled to the locations of which he wrote.
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